# U-\*34-SI (u-qīš)

> and the gift (heading over oil and grain amounts); rivals uqīš 'he bestowed', a name

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: u-qīš
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳyš](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3843/index.md>) 'to give as a present' 1, 'gift' 2, 'generous' 3
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · \*34 · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *qāšu* — qāšu (qiāšu) 'make a donation, dedicate, give a present' (CAD Q 156); qīšu 'given as a present' (CAD Q 280)
- Amorite: QJŠ, jaqīš 'to donate, to present'; qīšum 'given, gift' (Gelb 1980, 29)

## Attestations

- [HT 140](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT140/index.md>): U-\*34-SI
- [HT 15](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT15/index.md>): U-\*34-SI GRA

## Commentary

HT 140 opens both oil sections with U-*34-SI, each followed by a name (*86-SI-NI, *86-SI-*118-KA) and OLE amounts, the second broken after SI (GORILA I 237); HT 15 opens the grain account with it (684, 570, KI-RO 400). Never a recipient. u-qīš 'and the gift', *34 = qi: u- 'and' with qīš, Akk. qīšu 'given as a present' (CAD Q 280), Amorite qīšum 'given, gift' (Gelb 1980, 29), from √q-y-š 'give as a gift' (PS *ḳyš), Akk. qāšu 'make a donation, dedicate' (CAD Q 156). Rivals: uqīš 'he bestowed', D preterite, written ū-qa-īš (CAD Q 156, mng. 3); a name, as U-MI-NA-SI in the same header slot (HT 117a, HT 28b). Weak point: *34 = qi is a proposed value.

## Same root

- [QE-SI-ZU-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-SI-ZU-E/index.md>) (qīši ṯuʿē)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD Q; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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